Tuesday, September 14, 2004

9/9: A Paradigm-Shifting Day in Media History

James Pinkerton, writing in Newsday:

Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the "blogosphere" took down CBS News.

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in addition to being too-hungry for a Bush-bashing story and probably reckless - a story that's "too good to check" is not a good story - CBS never saw the blog-lash coming.